JZD Chelčice - Example of the Successful Agricultural Cooperative in Period of "the Normalization"?

Title: JZD Chelčice - an example of successful collective farm period of "normalization"? Author: Martin Kopeček Department: Department of History and History Didactics Supervisor: Prof. PhDr. Jiří Pokorný, CSc Abstract: The work deals with the Uniform agricultural cooperative in Chelčice in the normalization in Czechoslovakia. He tries to map its achievements and to answer the questions: what the nature of these accomplishments were (production, economy, presentation of achievements in contemporary media), on what is based (system and organization management, governing elites, economic concept, formal and informal relationships to the state and party authorities) and what were their historical context (esp. toward the village and the local agricultural production). Results are trying to contextualize contemporary, yet modest debate about the role of an agricultural cooperative in the normalization Key words: Chelčice - socialistist agriculture - United Agriculture Cooperative - collective farm - agriculture in socialist Czechoslovakia - affiliate production - khozraschyot - socialist entrepreneurship